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The Maternity and Child Welfare Centres operating in
Hackney are five in number; three Municipal and two voluntary.
The Municipal Infant Consultation Centres are open once weekly.
One Voluntary Centre is open twice weekly, and the remaining
Voluntary Centre is open once weeldy. There are two Ante-natal
Centres in the Borough, open once fortnightly, and two Day
Nurseries are working in the Borough under voluntary control.
The Borough is divided for Health Visiting purposes into
11 districts, two of the districts being placed in the care of Voluntary
Associations approved and partly financed by the Council; the
work of these Associations being in every particular co-ordinated,
as regards Maternity and Child Welfare, with the work of the Public
Health Department.
For particulars of Maternity and Child Welfare Work, see
page 59.
The death-rate for Hackney is 12.7, as compared with 124
for the County of London, and is slightly higher than the death-rate
of 15 of the Metropolitan Boroughs.
The Zymotic death-rate is 1.09, as compared with .77, the
figure for 1919, this increase being entirely due to the increased
number of deaths from measles and whooping cough, the number
of deaths from measles having increased by 73, and from whooping
cough by 40 during 1920. In spite of the fact that the number of
scarlet fever cases notified during 1920 was 1,077, as compared
with 643 during 1919, and the number of diphtheria cases notified
during 1920 was 764, as compared with 669 during 1919, the number
of deaths from each of these diseases was diminished; deaths from
scarlet fever being two less, and deaths from diphtheria 21 less than
in 1919.
Table II., page 36, gives the number of cases of infectious
diseases notified and removed to hospital during 1920.
The tuberculosis death-rate shows a slight decrease, the
mortality being 1.1 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with